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25-letter words containing r, h

  • child-resistant container — A child-resistant container is a container designed to be difficult for a child to open.
  • chorionic villus sampling — a method of diagnosing genetic disorders early in pregnancy by the removal by catheter through the cervix or abdomen of a tiny sample of tissue from the chorionic villi
  • commonwealth of australia — Australia's official title
  • computer-aided publishing — desktop publishing. Abbreviation: CAP.
  • constructional homonymity — the property of a string of morphemes that is susceptible of two or more syntactic analyses, as in Flying planes can be dangerous, planes may be either the object of flying or the subject of can.
  • copenhagen interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, based on the concept of wave–particle duality and the idea that the observation influences the result of an experiment
  • copyright deposit library — one of six libraries legally entitled to receive a gratis copy of every book published in the United Kingdom: the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge University, Trinity College in Dublin, Scottish National Library, and National Library of Wales
  • cracked gas heat recovery — Cracked gas heat recovery is the process of recovering energy from cracked gas, which is used to produce high-pressure steam to drive turbines for compressor plants.
  • credit where credit's due — If you say 'credit where credit's due', you are admitting that you ought to praise someone for something that they have done or for a good quality that they possess.
  • cry on someone's shoulder — to tell one's troubles to someone in seeking comfort or sympathy
  • cut the ground from under — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • data encryption algorithm — (DEA) An ANSI standard defined in ANSI X3.92-1981. It is identical to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
  • dataphone digital service — (communications, product)   (DDS) The first private-line digital service offered by AT&T, with data rates typically at 2.4, 4.8, 9.6 and 56 kilobits per second. DDS is now part of AT&T's Accunet family of services. Most LEC (local exchange carriers) and IXC (IntereXchange Carriers) offer similar services.
  • detective chief inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective inspector but below a detective superintendent
  • digital rights management — (legal)   (DRM) Any technology used to limit the use of software, music, movies or other digital data. This generally relies on some interaction between the media and the system that plays it. For example, video DVDs usually include a region code. If this does not match the player's region code, the player will refuse to play the disc.
  • diminished responsibility — law: lack of capacity
  • disappear without a trace — If you say that someone or something disappears without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
  • do sb/sth a world of good — If you say that something has done someone a world of good, you mean that it has made them feel better or improved their life.
  • do-it-yourself enthusiast — an enthusiast of the hobby or process of constructing and repairing things by yourself
  • domain architecture model — (systems analysis)   A set of software architectures generic to a domain that define organising frameworks for constructing new application designs and implementations within the domain, consistent with the domain requirements model.
  • drive someone up the wall — If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.
  • electroconvulsive therapy — the treatment of certain psychotic conditions by passing an electric current through the brain to induce coma or convulsions
  • electronic news gathering — the collecting of a television news story using electronic equipment, such as a portable video camera, rather than a traditional film camera
  • enhanced graphics adapter — (graphics, hardware)   (EGA) An IBM PC display standard with a resolution of 640 x 350 pixels of 16 colours.
  • entity-relationship model — (database, specification)   An approach to data modelling proposed by P. Chen in 1976. The model says that you divide your database in two logical parts, entities (e.g. "customer", "product") and relations ("buys", "pays for"). One of the first activities in specifying an application is defining the entities involved and their relationships, e.g. using an entity-relationship diagram to represent a model.
  • exhaust gas recirculation — Exhaust gas recirculation is the process of mixing exhaust gas with air taken in to make sure that all fuel is burned before entering the atmosphere.
  • expanding universe theory — the theory, developed from the observed red shifts of celestial bodies, that the space between galaxies is expanding, so that they appear to recede from us at velocities that increase with their distance
  • fifth generation language — (language, artificial intelligence)   A myth the Japanese spent a lot of money on. In about 1982, MITI decided it would spend ten years and a lot of money applying artificial intelligence to programming, thus solving the software crisis. The project spent its money and its ten years and in 1992 closed down with a wimper.
  • flash lights impressively — (programming, humour)   (FLI) /FLY/ A joke assembly language instruction first documented in the late 1970s in "The Hackers Dictionary". The FLI instruction was frequently referred to by engineers when minicomputers such as the DEC PDP-8, PDP-11 and some early microcomputers such as the IMSAI and Altair had dozens of front panel lights. "When the computer is about to do some long I/O operation, stick in a FLI so the accountants won't think the machine has hung again."
  • fleet chief petty officer — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Navy comparable in rank to a warrant officer in the British Army or Royal Air Force
  • for a start/to start with — You use for a start or to start with to introduce the first of a number of things or reasons that you want to mention or could mention.
  • force one's way somewhere — If you force your way through or into somewhere, you have to push or break things that are in your way in order to get there.
  • from strength to strength — with ever-increasing success
  • further education college — (in Britain) an establishment that offers formal education beyond school and which is not a university or polytechnic
  • gabriel daniel fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • genealogical relationship — the relationship that exists between languages that have developed from a single earlier language.
  • general recursion theorem — (mathematics)   Cantor's theorem, originally stated for ordinals, which extends inductive proof to recursive construction. The proof is by pasting together "attempts" (partial solutions).
  • german wirehaired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a harsh, wiry, flat-lying coat usually liver and white in color, a muzzle with a beard and whiskers, and a docked tail, used as a retrieving pointer.
  • get off on the wrong foot — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
  • give (or get) the mitten — to reject (or be rejected) as a lover
  • give sb pause for thought — If something gives you pause for thought, it makes you think carefully about something, especially in a different way than you have thought about it before.
  • go through fire and water — to undergo great difficulties or dangers
  • good for you/him/her/them — People say 'Good for you' to express approval of your actions.
  • graft-versus-host disease — a reaction in which the cells of transplanted tissue immunologically attack the cells of the host organism, occurring especially in bone-marrow transplants.
  • graham's law of diffusion — the principle that at a given temperature and pressure the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its density.
  • graphic design department — a group of people in a company who work in graphic design
  • graphic display interface — (hardware)   (GDI) graphics adaptor.
  • graphics interface format — (spelling)   You mean "Graphics Interchange Format".
  • group-sweeping scheduling — (storage, algorithm)   (GSS) A disk scheduling strategy in which requests are served in cycles, in a round-robin manner. To reduce disk arm movements ("seeking"), the set of streams is divided into groups that are served in fixed order. Streams within a group are served according to "SCAN". If all clients are assigned to one group, GSS reduces to SCAN, and if all clients are assigned to separate groups, GSS effectively becomes round-robin scheduling. The service order within one group is not fixed, and a stream may in fact be first in one cycle while last in the next. This variation has to be masked by extra buffering but whereas SCAN requires buffer space for all streams, GSS can reuse the buffer for each group and effect a trade-off between seek optimisation and buffer requirements.
  • hailsham of st marylebone — Baron, title of Quintin (McGarel) Hogg (ˈkwɪntɪn). 1907–2001, British Conservative politician; Lord Chancellor (1970–74; 1979–87). He renounced his viscountcy in 1963 when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Party leadership; he became a life peer in 1970
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